James Tate, PhD, is the Director of the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies' Center for Environmental Economics and Ethics.  According to Dr. Tate, the BP oil spill in the Gulf is an unprecedented disaster that calls for nothing less than a fundamental economic and cultural restructuring as part of the response.  In an interview on radio's syndicated Jim Bohannon Show, Dr. Tate argues that we have given short shrift to the kind of research that could mitigate or prevent such disasters in the future.  Click here to listen to the interview in full.